A complex and uncertain world calls for new visions for learning and for what learners are capable of. Our vision highlights five key characteristics. Next Level Learners are: 1) agentive in their learning and in adjusting their contexts, emotionally, socially, physically, and cognitively, to support their best learning and performance; 2) focused on developing flexible expertise that they can apply and transfer across contexts; 3) integrated emotional and cognitive beings with embodied minds who bring their whole selves to learning and performance; 4) informed and effective users of their own minds who regularly seek out information about how embodied minds work and leverage it in learning and performance; and 5) cultural beings who reflect upon their own cultural and contextual assumptions, seek to be aware of those of others and consider how to navigate between and across cultural contexts.
Research Projects:
- Next Level Learner Moves Project: Acting Like Fast Fish
- Transfer in a Situated “Work Learn” Context
- The Pedagogy of Modern Apprenticeship
- Experiences of Awe and Meaning at Work
- Project HIRE: Helping Inclusive Recruiting Efforts
Publications:
Research Briefs:
- How Fast Fish Sink or Swim: Adopting an Agentive View of Learners
- Why Dispositions Matter for the Workforce in Turbulent, Uncertain Times
- Developing Adaptive Expertise for Navigating New Terrain: An Essential Element of Success in Learning and the Workplace
- How Next Level Learning Enables A More Powerful Vision for Transfer
Teaching Times Articles:
- What is Next Level Learning and Why does it Matter?
- From Engaged to Agentive: Why is it Time to Raise Learning to the Next Level?
- Leveraging Epistemic Emotions to Cultivate Intrinsic Motivation
- Deeper Learning Towards What?: The Nature of Deep Understanding
- Dripping Water Wears Through Stones: Small Changes to Bring Your Teaching to the Next Level
- The Icing on the Cake: How Metacognition Enhances Learning
- Leveraging Learners’ Agency for Enhancing the Process of Feedback